memalign

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.oz.au
Sat Feb 8 12:56:35 AEDT 1997


Hi Tom,


I wrote:

> I can't figure out why your changes didn't break the GC grades too,
> since the main zones, e.g. detstack_zone, never seems to get initialized.

Sorry, my mistake, they do.

But back to the subject of the post: I think the new code is broken
in the case when HAVE_MEMALIGN is not true; the base address is
never rounded up to a page boundary, and so the offsets each become
offsets from a different random address.

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